GlaetzerAmon-Ra Shiraz
About this product
- TypeShiraz
- Size750mL
- RegionBarossa Valley
- Current Vintage2020* - Vintage is not guaranteed and may vary store to store or when delivered.
- Standard Drinks9.2
- Alcohol Volume15.5%
- Langtons ClassifiedExcellent
- CountryAustralia
- StateSouth Australia
- Brand NameGlaetzer
- Wine MakerBen Glaetzer
- ClosureCork
- Wine SweetnessDry
- Wine BodyFull Bodied
- More about Mike Bennie
Mike Bennie
Australian writer, judge, presenter and reviewer for The Wine Front
Vintage 2016
94 points The Wine Front
From a blind tasting of some 60-odd Barossa shiraz, it felt like 2016 was a great year for more structured, slightly more reserved shiraz styles. The highest scoring quadrant (on average) were from wines from 2016. Anyway, Amon Ra is a good premium wine yardstick for Barossa fans. Here’s a good release. Spicy, peppery stuff over black currants, choc-liquorice, clovey oak. Palate is silky with succulent tannins but has some bright acidity underlying. Quite tight in its style, elegant, svelte, long in flavour, destined for long sleeps in cellars. Blackberries, pepper, dusty tannins, sinewy feel though there’s a dense concentration of fruit-oak slurry underlying. Like this, even though reserved – beautiful.
James Halliday
Australian wine writer, critic and winemaker
Vintage 2016
95 points Halliday Wine Companion
From 50-130yo vines, open-fermented, hand-plunged, matured for 16 months in new hogsheads, 95% French. Deep, dense, inky hue; every step (other than a wine-stained crease along the side of the cork) along the way has been carefully scripted, starting and finishing with 15.5% alcohol. If you enjoy mammoth wines of enormous power and depth, go for it.